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Hongbiao Yin; Alan Chi Keung Cheung; Winnie Wing Yi Tam; Elaine Lau – Early Education and Development, 2024
While play-based learning is important for a high quality early education, only when teachers are confident and competent in enacting play-based learning in their everyday practice are expected benefits of play-based learning for whole-child development realized. A sample of 592 early childhood educators who assumed different job titles in Hong…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Preschool Teachers
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Hu, Bi Ying; Wu, Zhongling; Winsler, Adam; Wu, Yan; Fan, Xitao – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This longitudinal study examined how teacher-child interaction quality related to growth in children's approaches to learning (ATL), measured by Competence Motivation Learning Strategies, and Attention and Persistence, in a stratified random sample of 607 Chinese children. Data on classroom teacher-child interaction quality…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Student Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Justice, Laura M.; Jiang, Hui; Sun, Jing; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Purtell, Kelly; Ansari, Arya; Helsabeck, Nathan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical measurement model representing four proposed dimensions of the classroom ecology in pre-K to third-grade classrooms. The four proposed dimensions of Classroom Composition, Peer Network and Norms, Teacher Practices, and Student Experiences were evaluated using data collected in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Kindergarten, Preschool Education, Measurement Techniques
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Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Johanson, Megan; Justice, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: We examined the amount of preschool lead/assistant teachers' English/Spanish language use and relations between quality of teacher-child interactions, and Dual Language Learners' (DLLs) English/Spanish bilingual vocabulary in 31 English-medium Head Start classrooms. Measures in this study included (a) children's conceptual…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Goodrich, Samantha; Mudrick, Hannah; Robinson, JoAnn – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: National policy today is on the brink of defining preschool experiences as essential for children's academic success. Indeed, many children's classroom experience begins as they transition from infant/toddler care to a preschool classroom. This study examined developmentally relevant skill domains among 36-month-olds (effortful…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, School Readiness
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Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2006
This study investigated the challenges and opportunities associated with the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) into the early childhood curriculum in Hong Kong kindergartens. Thirty-one principals completed questionnaires before they implemented a new curriculum initiative plan that involved the integrating of ICT…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Learning Processes